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Gerald L. Neuman

Director, Human Rights Program J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law

Gerald L. Neuman is the Director of the Human Rights Program, and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in international human rights law, immigration and nationality law, and U.S. constitutional law. From 2011 to 2014, he served as a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, the international body of independent experts that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, one of the principal human rights instruments that form the “International Bill of Rights.”

Neuman has published widely on issues of human rights law, immigration and nationality law, and U.S. and comparative constitutional law. The cooperation and competition among global, national, and regional mechanisms for the protection of individual rights are a major focus of his current research. He has also written numerous amicus curiae briefs concerning the U.S. constitutional rights of foreign nationals, extraterritorial application of constitutional rights, and habeas corpus as a remedy for executive detention.

Prior to joining HLS, Neuman was the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. He began his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and has also been a visiting professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, and has taught in programs at the universities of Leiden, Freiburg, and Tokyo. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an A.B. from Harvard College.